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I went from about 600 loyalty to about 3500 in two hours tonight, killing stuff. No trickery, just killing things at a decent clip. I had a couple of unraveling bags with me, and I'd fill one up with everything on the bodies, then deposit it at home when it was overloading me and start on the second. After those two hours, in addition to the 3k-ish loyalty, I had nearly 400 magical residue and 60 enchanted essence, which I then used to take my crafter's Imbuing from 56 to 63.

I don't like rep grinds much, but compared to WoW, this is a super easy one, thank god.

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Well what do you expect when you have a weak, fast spawning monster in a confined area that gives out lots of loyalty points? Acid Slugs just turned out to be the quickest. There are other locations in the Underworld and Stygian Abyss where the same can be done. It wasn't such a good idea to be able to gain loyalty by killing monsters.

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Actually, I really am starting to believe that some of the developers don't actually play the game they're designing. I don't mean this to be offensive, it's just... it's just very hard to have Draconi make assurances that no one would be getting full loyalty to place houses within the first few days, and then, quite the opposite, people have placed houses on the first and second days of release.

It's really very disappointing. And not because I was planning on placing in Ter Mur. I wasn't. It just sort of displays a disconnect between the expectations of the development team and the reality of the player base.

All of that said, I am thoroughly enjoying SA... it just... yeah... I dunno.

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Seriously no one can honestly predict the ability of a power gamer to break down the system and get to the end game the fastest. I've played many different games and each level increase or cap to meet is always thoroughly underestimated by the development team. EQ folks making 10 lvls in 2 days 7 hours, WoW folks doing it in less than a week, when the hopes are that it takes much longer and the content is not burned through leaving people to get bored and move to other games before the next expansion is released. Some people don't care to enjoy the lore or the journey, its about getting the biggest, best first, then usually putting it up for sale, happens in every game on the market.

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Seriously no one can honestly predict the ability of a power gamer to break down the system and get to the end game the fastest. I've played many different games and each level increase or cap to meet is always thoroughly underestimated by the development team. EQ folks making 10 lvls in 2 days 7 hours, WoW folks doing it in less than a week, when the hopes are that it takes much longer and the content is not burned through leaving people to get bored and move to other games before the next expansion is released. Some people don't care to enjoy the lore or the journey, its about getting the biggest, best first, then usually putting it up for sale, happens in every game on the market.

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From a psychological view point, a good percentage of "power gamers" are underachievers, who basically conquer these games, to have a sense of achievement, if only in their minds.

Yeah, it's a sad life..........that's why we have them in the online games. It's a public display of ones negative constitution.

From a psychological view point, a good percentage of "power gamers" are underachievers, who basically conquer these games, to have a sense of achievement, if only in their minds.

Yeah, it's a sad life..........that's why we have them in the online games. It's a public display of ones negative constitution.

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Translation: "I do not particularly enjoy seeing how quickly and efficiently I can move through new content - I prefer to take my time. Other people, however, do enjoy seeing how quickly and efficiently they can move through new content; I.e. their likes and dislikes do not perfectly match my own. This clearly means that they are raving psychopaths; worthless filth; the very epitome of human detritus. They should be swiftly exterminated, as they have no business being upon the same plane of existence as me."

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